Photos: Cutest baby zoo animals

Photos: Cutest baby zoo animals

Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina (not pictured) at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.

JOE KLAMAR
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Baby orangutan "Changi," almost a year old, plays in his enclosure at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany, on May 24, 2011. Orangutans are native to rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.ROLAND WEIHRAUCH
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Nine-year-old Jenny Bohtz (R) pets baby tiger Josef during his presentation at the zoo in Eberswalde, northeastern Germany, on May 18, 2011. Josef and his twin brother Victor were born at the zoo on Feb. 28, 2011.PATRICK PLEUL
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A three-week-old baby elephant plays with his mother in the mud in its compound at the zoo in Munich, southern Germany, on May 30, 2011. The baby elephant was born on last May 6, 2011.FRANK LEONHARDT
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Curious and cautiously the baby miniature donkey approaches a peacock at the Beacon Hill Children's Zoo in Victoria, B.C., May 25, 2011.ADRIAN LAM
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Staff member Claudia Laube holds the new baby miniature donkey, as Taffy (L) reaches over for reassure her at the Beacon Hill Children's Zoo in Victoria, B.C. May 25, 2011.ADRIAN LAM
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Taffy the miniature donkey has given birth to a baby donkey at the Beacon Hill Children's Zoo in Victoria, B.C. May 25, 2011. She was born in the wee hrs of the morning, as of yet she is unnamed.ADRIAN LAM
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Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

A Sumatran tiger named "Malea" cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
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A Sumatran tiger named "Malea" cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
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Baby orang-utan "Changi", almost a year old, plays in his enclosure at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany, on May 24, 2011. Orang-utans are native to rain forests of Indonesia and Malaysia.ROLAND WEIHRAUCH
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Baby orang-utan "Changi", almost a year old, plays in his enclosure at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany, on May 24, 2011. Orang-utans are native to rain forests of Indonesia and Malaysia.ROLAND WEIHRAUCH
/ AFP/Getty Images

A Sumatran tiger named "Malea" cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
/ AFP/Getty Images

A Sumatran tiger named "Malea" cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
/ AFP/Getty Images

A small Prairie dog looks around at the zoo in Hanover on May 26, 2011, where four young prairie dogs live in a family of 16 in the so-called "Yukon Bay" enclosure of the zoo.JOCHEN LUEBKE
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A small Prairie dog bites in a blade of grass at the zoo in Hanover on May 26, 2011, where four young prairie dogs live in a family of 16 in the so-called "Yukon Bay" enclosure of the zoo.JOCHEN LUEBKE
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A small Prairie dog (R) seems to kiss an older one at the zoo in Hanover on May 26, 2011, where four young prairie dogs live in a family of 16 in the so-called "Yukon Bay" enclosure of the zoo.JOCHEN LUEBKE
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Two baby Sumatran tiger cubs dose in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
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A young Euler Macaca baby (Eulemur macaco) rides on its mother's back in Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden, in the Hungarian capital on May 22, 2011. The worldwide total of about 240 Madagascar's monkey live in zoos , in a world population of the past 12 months for a total of 6 puppies were born, even counting the people of Budapest.ATTILA KISBENEDEK
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Giraffe Ramla is outside for the first time with her mother Kadija (R) in Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on May 25, 2011. Ramla, which means fortune teller in Swahili, was born last Sunday. The umbilical cord is still connected to the young animal.MARCEL ANTONISSE
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Giraffe Ramla is outside for the first time in Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on May 25, 2011. Ramla, which means fortune teller in Swahili, was born last Sunday. The umbilical cord is still connected to the young animal.MARCEL ANTONISSE
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Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina (not pictured) at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin zoo at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

The father of an 18-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) swims as his calf makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina (both not pictured) at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. Four-year-old Paul was brought from the Berlin zoo at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
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Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina (not pictured) at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina (not pictured) at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin zoo at the age of one.JOE KLAMAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

A Sumatran tiger named "Malea" cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.BORIS ROESSLER
/ AFP/Getty Images

A keel billed toucan is seen on May 27,2011 at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington,DC. The keel billed toucan's bill is around one third of the length of the keel billed toucan's body.The keel billed toucan is native to the jungles of South America where it lives in holes in the trees.MANON RAT-FEREL
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